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Eight Atlantic White-sided dolphins were found on Tuesday, following 23 dolphins, a pilot whale and a seal discovered since January 1 in the hook-shaped Cape Cod region and its maze of sandbars and marshes that are a magnet for tourists in summer.
The number is unusually high, according to the Cape Cod Stranding Network that oversees rescue efforts. It typically averages 200 rescues a year, compared to 31 rescues performed in the last 10 days alone.
The Associated Press
QUILCENE — A dead gray whale was found in Hood Canal opposite the Navy submarine base at Bangor, and there was no immediate indication of the cause of death, researchers said.
Area residents spotted the carcass Saturday on the east side of Toandos Peninsula, and a necropsy led by John Calambokidis, a biologist with Cascade Research Collectives, was conducted Monday.
"We couldn't find any major external injuries that would suggest a cause of death," Calambokidis told the Kitsap Sun newspaper.
Tissue samples were taken to test for toxic chemicals and disease processes but may yield little information because the whale had been dead for at least a week and a half, he said.
The whale, seen alive near Seabeck in about mid-December and later spotted near the Alderbrook Inn at the south end of the fjord, may have been sick when it entered Hood Canal about the middle of December, Calambokidis said. The first report that it had died was received Dec. 31, but the carcass was not spotted again until Saturday.
"The fact that it came that far down and stayed in Hood Canal suggests there was something wrong with the animal," he said.
Gray whale deaths in Puget Sound and the associated inland marine waters occur mostly from March through June but also on occasion in December, when the whales migrate south along the coast from their feeding grounds in the Arctic.
Originally posted by worldwatcher
With all the focus on the strange and mysterious bird deaths being reported around the world, I wondered if there was other strange occurences happening with our animals and decided to check out the sealife. Initial results show that:
Scientists baffled by U.S. stranding of dolphins
Eight Atlantic White-sided dolphins were found on Tuesday, following 23 dolphins, a pilot whale and a seal discovered since January 1 in the hook-shaped Cape Cod region and its maze of sandbars and marshes that are a magnet for tourists in summer.
The number is unusually high, according to the Cape Cod Stranding Network that oversees rescue efforts. It typically averages 200 rescues a year, compared to 31 rescues performed in the last 10 days alone.
Is it possible that whatever is affecting the birds, could also be affecting our sealife and the very sensitive dolphins and whales? Would it rule out an airborne/gas cause? Could it be more suggestive of a geomagnetic/energy field cause either natural or manmade. I think it would be interesting to document any stories regarding stranded and sick sealife that may pop up in the coming weeks.
Upon further searching, it seems a few incidents of beached whales started showing up around mid December 06...
Beached giant whale sent on its way in Vietnam
Whales Beached (Spain)
Whale dead after all (Malayasia)
Watchers powerless to save beached whales(New Zealand)
[edit on 1-9-2007 by worldwatcher]
Several hundred small fish washed up dead on the beach between Lovers Point and Esplanade Park on Monday morning, state Department of Fish and Game officials confirmed.
The officials said it was unclear how the fish, likely sardines, ended up on shore, but it was possible that they were thrown from a fishing boat. Throwing dead fish off a boat would be violation of state law, according to associated marine biologist Travis Tanaka.
Playful Whales Sink Yacht
'A big male humpback whale, a big bull, just nosed up to the boat, and we stood there and looked at each other for about 30 seconds, and then he just sunk and swam under the boat,' Wright said.
'He made a hole about a metre square in the bow of the boat. There were six of them, they all just played around the boat for about 10 minutes.'
Ukrainian drunk escapes dolphin gang drowning attempt
Ukrainian emergency workers saved a drunken swimmer in the Black Sea from an attack by a pod of killer dolphins who were trying to drown him.
Originally posted by Rockpuck
ahhh hahahaha.
Killer dolphins???? OMG LMAO!!
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A controversial theory, researched by Jim Berkland, a former geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, attributes the strange behavior to radical changes in the Earth's magnetic field just prior to earthquakes and in the general area of earthquakes. Berkland says when this occurs, it interferes with sea mammals' and even migratory birds' ability to navigate, which explains the mass beachings. He says even dogs and cats can sense the disruptions, which explains elevated rates of runaway pets in local newspapers a day or two prior to earthquakes. Research on Earth's magnetic field and how it is affected by moving tectonic plates and earthquakes is ongoing.
Scientists Predict Big Solar Cycle
Hathaway and Wilson looked at records of geomagnetic activity stretching back almost 150 years and noticed something useful:. "The amount of geomagnetic activity now tells us what the solar cycle is going to be like 6 to 8 years in the future," says Hathaway.